The Mysteries of the Court of London — page 230: what you’re looking at

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wate to him the perpetratioa of such a crime!” exclaimed Ernestina. “Is he not sufficiently erushed——” “Pardon me, my lady,” interrupted Sampeon: “but no suspicion of the sort has been excited with reference to your ladyship’s husband. Grant me a few minutes—and [ will explain myself. I must inform your Jadyship, in the strictest confi- dence, that Mr. Dysart’s arrest took place at Beechey Manor in consequence of an anonymous letter sent early the same morning to Bow Street, and which letter was instantaneously placed by the magistrate in my hands.” “An anonymous letter!” exclaimed Ernestina, with well affected surprise and indignation. “Yes—here it is,” said Larry Sampson, as he produced Aer own note and handed it to her—that same note which she had despatched by old Un- @erdown to the office at Bow Street, as the reader eanact fail to remember. 2° She took it with trembling hands and pale countenance: and as she pr®tended to run her eyes over its contents—those well known contents —she made a desperate struggle to regain her courage. “ Your ladyship may well be annoyed,” observed Sampson—for even the astute and cunning officer was liable to mistake the causes of emotion and excitement now and then. “ You are disgusted at the treachery practised by the annonymous cor- respondent—and you are shocked at observing the handwriting to be that of a lady, and evidently an accomplished one.” “Ah! Dysart has proved false to me—and it is doubtless his mistress who thus betrayed him! cried Ernestina, with all the appearance of the most genuine anguish, “But what has this to do with the disappearance of Sir Archibald Mal- vern?” “1 will tell your ladyship. This evening Mr, comliclbooks.com een ernie ree Si: io ee